I WAS appalled by the ethos of Helen Mead's article ('Everyone's on the fiddle', September 24).

How can the next generation learn that stealing, lying and cheating are wrong with such a role model?

I sympathise with Helen's daughter having to stand alongside her mother and hear such blatant dishonesty in the shoe shop as she described.

VP Crabb,

Upper Poppleton, York.

Updated: 10:18 Thursday, September 25, 2003